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Field guides in plain language, the doctrine itself, and what we're finding along the way. Free to read, free to share.
INTEGRATED THREAT REDUCTION
The method, in 64 pages.
The primary document of Integrated Threat Reduction — one framework for reducing the threats to a protected area, from poaching to human-wildlife conflict: respond in real time, deploy on data, and remove the causes.
PRIMARY DOCUMENT · FIRST EDITION
Integrated Threat Reduction
A threat that can be analysed can be reduced. Integrated Threat Reduction sets out the whole method: three tiers of operations — real-time response, data-driven deployments, and prevention at the root cause — run on SARA fast and slow, and the case studies that show it working.
- Authors
- Lemieux & Vos
- Publisher
- ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
- Edition(s)
- English · Bahasa Indonesia
The Little Guide series
Big ideas, pocket-sized.
Short, plain-language field guides for conservation security practitioners — written for the ranger and the ops room.
Little Guide · Newest
After the Event
Some events in conservation security leave a mark — a contact, a colleague lost, a serious injury, a decision that could not be taken back. What happens to a team afterwards is part of the operational mission. This guide is about that support: what it looks like, who provides it, and how to build it before it is needed.
- Authors
- Vos & Booton
- Publisher
- LEAD Conservation
- Edition(s)
- English · French · Bahasa Indonesia
More Little Guides are in development, written with our partner Panthera. If there's a field problem you want one to tackle, the series is shaped by practitioner requests. Suggest a guide
PROBLEM-ORIENTED WILDLIFE PROTECTION
The problem-solving texts.
Written by Andrew M. Lemieux and Panthera's Rob Pickles, and published open access at the ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing. These two texts carry the analysis that drives the preventive tier of Integrated Threat Reduction — read them, use them, pass them on.
THE STRATEGY · 2020
Problem-Oriented Wildlife Protection
Lemieux and Pickles adapt a proven policing strategy for protected areas: understand the problem behind the incidents, design a tailored response, and measure whether it worked. The paper that gives the approach its name.
- Authors
- Lemieux & Pickles
- Publisher
- ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
- Edition(s)
- English · Multiple languages
THE METHOD · 2022
Problem Analysis for Wildlife Protection in 55 Steps
The strategy turned into a workbook: fifty-five steps an analyst works through, from naming the problem to testing the response. Available in English and in a Thai print edition.
- Authors
- Lemieux, Pickles & Weekers
- Publisher
- ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
- Edition(s)
- English · Thai
LEAD Academy · online courses
Learn the thinking online. Prove it in the field.
LEAD Academy carries the foundations of our approach online — short, structured courses your team takes at its own pace, wherever it works. Access opens with partnership. Competence is still earned in person, at the gate.
Foundations of Problem Solving
The problem-oriented mindset behind ITR — scanning, analysis, response, assessing — in a self-paced introduction for analysts and decision-makers.
Opens with partnership.QGIS for Problem Solvers
Turn incident data into maps that drive decisions — practical, free GIS skills for conservation analysts.
Opens with partnership.Inside the Academy
New courses are added regularly — foundations for partner teams, and cohorts built for a single organisation. Curious what your team would study?
Ask for the course overviewCertification stays in person: RangerPro and Insight certificates are awarded on demonstrated competence, at the gate. The Academy is the first step toward them.
From the newsroom
Insights, news, and partner stories.
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The South Rift: 12,098 students in 21 days.
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